ENDLESS DEVOTION
Performed Museum of Modern Art Oxford & The Serpentine Gallery London
1990

A mother & daughter face each other & attempt through repetitive gesture to communicate across a sea of
objects. The objects, 100 dinner plates, act as sign of the domestic world, often inhabited by women & refers to the
endless repetition of their touch and presence within it.
Each plate holds a heart shaped piece of ice which is frozen writing ink.

These objects act as barrier between them & yet hold them united. The work explores the signs and
language of contact & alienation. It refers to the unspoken association and devotion of mother & daughter, one to another.

The gestures made, intimate & personal to each, act as semaphores of identity & age whilst emphasising the distance between them. Their shared humanity is obscured by their inability to communicate. The work moves through a series of disjointed emotional postures to an understanding of their common tongue but the frailty of it’s expression.
The frozen writing ink hearts melt throughout the piece.